It's balsam bashing season 🌿 🌸

Himalayan Balsam is a pesky invasive plant. Whilst pretty, it can cause havoc in woodlands with each plant able to produce up to 800 seeds per year.

Live near #Drumnadrochit? Join the gang at #UrquhartBay this Saturday & get bashing 👇

Final @iapetusdtp.bsky.social student conference of my PhD. Thanks to Heriot-Watt University for organising & hosting! A good @newcastleuni.bsky.social turn out! @sagencl.bsky.social

#crayfish friends - are you sitting on primary data on crayfish populations?

we are looking for partners in a global trait gathering programme. Currently have 50+ contributors from a full global spread but looking for more!

Please dm me or email me j.south@leeds.ac.uk

Please share!!

Congratulations to @jahardwick.bsky.social on his first #PhD paper out today 🎉🥂 James has reviewed the impact of non-native plant species on river bank erosion rates 🏞️🪻🌳🪴🌍
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📣 #HiringNow: Seeking 3 x experienced Field Botanists or Field Ecologists for a 6-month full-time role starting in April.

Your expertise will support the ERAMMP team delivering a national field survey across Wales.

Apply by 25 Jan: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CEH_Careers/...

#UKCEHJobs

New paper! 'Integrated management of the raw water transfer invasion pathway'.

This paper shows the incredible scale of the pathway in England and Wales. Pathway stakeholders must support RWT information sharing.

www.reabic.net/journals/mbi/2025/1/MBI_2025_Waine_etal.pdf

#invasive #freshwater

Lots of PhD studentships available with
@iapetusdtp.bsky.social
See the link for projects with colleagues and myself!
#findaphd #PhDposition
zarahsinthefield.com/home/project...

Do you have knowledge or expertise in taxonomic groups found in the UK’s uplands? I’m looking for naturalists to contribute to autecological analysis as part of a #biodiversity audit assessing impacts of land-use change across eight of northern England’s protected landscapes 1/4

Dove Marine Laboratory was looking particularly picturesque this morning!

📣 Fully funded PhD project supervised by me & @philstevenson.bsky.social within @treesdla.bsky.social on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators. Nice mix of fieldwork in Finland & pollen and nectar chemistry 🐝🌼🌳🌲 🧪🌍 Apply by 20 Jan www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

PhDs being offered across the Iapetus DTP for an October 2025 start:
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Please broadcast details of our Diversifying Talent Scholarship scheme too:
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

@ukri.org #BlackAFinSTEM #firstgen

Window now open to apply for a BSBI grant for 2025!
We offer grants for short #WildFlowerID courses (our online course Identiplant & courses from external providers), for Plant Study & Research.
Our Grants page also lists other grants that we think might be of interest to botanists:
bsbi.org/grants